Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 9 • The Scientist As Villain • [Asimov's Editorials] • (1979) • essay by Isaac Asimov
• 13 • Gift of a Useless Man • (1979) • short story by Alan Dean Foster
• 26 • Mandalay • [Alternities, Inc.] • (1979) • novelette by John M. Ford
• 55 • The Toroids of Dr. Klonefake • [SF Puzzles] • (1978) • short story by Martin Gardner
• 56 • The Tryouts • [Circus World] • (1978) • short story by Barry B. Longyear
• 72 • A Growing Concern • (1978) • short story by Arnie Bateman
• 74 • Written in Sand • (1979) • short story by Rob Chilson [as by Robert Chilson]
• 90 • The Man with the Eye • (1978) • short story by Phyllis Eisenstein
• 108 • As Chemist to Chemist • non-genre • (1978) • short story by Isaac Asimov (variant of A Problem of Numbers 1970)
• 113 • Bat Durston, Space Marshal • (1978) • short story by G. Richard Bozarth
• 120 • The Bitter End • [Lord Darcy] • (1978) • novelette by Randall Garrett
• 156 • The Woman Who Loved the Centaur Pholus • [Anderson] • (1979) • short story by Gene Wolfe
• 167 • On Man's Rôle in the Galaxy • (1978) • essay by R. N. Bracewell
• 174 • The Thaw • (1979) • novelette by Tanith Lee
• 196 • Inevitability Sphere • (1978) • short story by Jeff Duntemann
• 205 • Scrap from the Notebooks of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • (1978) • short story by K. W. MacAnn
• 206 • Wolkenheim Fairday • [Far Stars and Future Times] • (1980) • novelette by Richard S. McEnroe
• 228 • Ker-Plop • (1979) • novella by Ted Reynolds